You’re really reaching by saying gay marriage has anything to do with this. Obviously you support it and want to get a plug in for it but it doesn’t affect this case one way or the other.

“Tags may be a good guy. But there’s a major misconception about Tags. I know what I say as fact. I was an exec at one of Fortune 50 companies in San Antonio, on the project team to move the Saints to San Antonio. It was an astonishing set of events. Each of the CEOs was committing to # of seats guaranteed and corporate sponsorships. In 2.5 weeks, they had the deal done, 80% of the owners and Tags finally caved to do the deal. At the 11th hour, Benson went nuts with new demands for a new stadium and these CEOs, who were as wealthy as Tom and much much more powerful than Benson, made the decision Tom was a wildcard and they killed the entire deal in in one evening. For point of interest, one of these CEOs was Whitaker, at the time ATT, and who took charge and turned around GM largely at the request of the President of the US. And Whitaker was not the most powerful of the San Antonio CEO group trying to take the Saints to SA.”

You know that Tagliabue’s son is gay, right? “Open mind” could be nothing more complicated than bias in favor of protecting his own family.

So, I assume by fair, you mean completely exonerated? No bias there right? Give me a break. As for the guilt, they don’t want to accept it because they don’t want to admit to it, most people caught red handed do the same thing. I’d reserve trusting these guys, the union or the NFL until the entire thing is over as they all have their own agendas and none of them revolve around some lowly fan. It’s obvious that he only ruling you and other obvious diehard Saints fans would accept is that of the innocence of these players, even if they had insurmountable evidence against them, which taints your opinion and makes it less than irrelevant.

Will the players accept an unfavorable ruling? Not a chance. They are unwilling do accept their guilt.

And Goodell tells the media that he has not went over any of this with Tags. These are not the droids you are looking for.

Combined with the millions Tags is still getting from the league, and Tags’ desire to not make a fellow commissioner & the NFL look bad—I don’t care if Fujita and Tagliabue are long lost ideological soulmates. Nothing matters as much as those factors.